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Summoners, the wait is over. Com2us has announced a major update to its flagship RPG Summoners War, which includes the highly-anticipated start of the fourth season of its real-time PvP mode, World Arena.
Season four of the World Arena will be the first season of the year, lasting until April.… Read the rest
Street Fighter® V: Arcade Edition, an updated version of the latest game in the hit fighting series exclusively for the PlayStation 4 and Windows PC is available physically and digitally in North America today and Europe. SFV: Arcade Edition provides the core content from the initial Street Fighter® V release and access to the downloadable content updates such as the previously released Cinematic Story Mode and Versus CPU Mode.… Read the rest
EVO Japan 2018, the world’s biggest fighting game tournament series operated by “Evolution Championship Series” (“EVO”), and the first ever EVO tournament to be held in Asia.
In recent years, competitive video games known as “eSports” have been on the rise with players competing for significant prize pots in tournaments held all around the world.
Gfinity announced that Alpha Republic of Esport (Ares), has signed-up to the Elite Series for Season 3. Having increased the number of teams to 10, Ares has acquired the roster spot previously held by Endpoint. The teams will go head-to-head on EA SPORTS FIFA 18, Rocket League and Street Fighter V, competing for part of the £250,000 prize-pool when the tournament kicks-off on Friday 9th March at the Gfinity Esports Arena in London.… Read the rest
ESL Gaming
IEM PyeongChang will take place on February 5-7, and will feature StarCraft’s II own stand-alone esports tournament ahead of the Olympic Winter Games 2018. 18 top players from around the world will compete for a US$156,000 prize pool on a one-of-a-kind esports stage.
Five Protoss, four Terran, and nine Zerg players are in the running for this tournament trophy, and they will begin the battle in the following bracket:
Intel® Extreme Masters
Sixteen teams, a US$500,000 prize pool, and a legendary arena with a legendary crowd – Intel® Extreme Masters World Championship Katowice 2018 in CS:GO is upon us.
LoL eSports
In this episode of Eyes On, we check in with some of the biggest stars and newest faces in the NA LCS amid a major offseason roster shuffle. Reigning champions TSM send shockwaves through the league with a trio of blockbuster signings in Zven, Mithy and MikeYeung. Aphromoo looks to take the next step in his storied career as one of North America’s most coveted free agents.… Read the rest
Dave Oliver, Blizzard Entertainment
With the 2018 season officially underway, the World Championship Series (WCS) Challenger series has given us our first taste in what to expect from the coming year. We have a lot of familiar faces among the 16 qualifiers, and it’s going to be a great show to see who will come out on top as the first Circuit champion of 2018.… Read the rest
ELEAGUE
Turner and IMG’s ELEAGUE will continue live coverage of The ELEAGUE Major: Boston with The New Legends stage, Friday-Monday, Jan. 19-22, beginning daily at 10 a.m. ET on Twitch. This second stage of the three-week world championship, featuring a $1 million dollar prize pool, will showcase 16 teams competing for eight spots in The New Champions round, held Friday-Sunday, Jan.… Read the rest
CS:GO League
FACEIT’s Esports Championship Series (ECS), the first CS:GO league to offer players co-ownership and true collaboration in league activities, is shaking up the qualification format for ECS Season 5 by eliminating the ECS Development League and introducing the new ECS Challenger Cup. In previous seasons, teams would earn a place in ECS through the ECS Development League but with the busy CS:GO league and tournament schedule, the process is changed to allow more teams to participate.… Read the rest
CD PROJEKT RED, creators of The Witcher series of games, invite gamers and esports enthusiasts to watch the January 2018 GWENT Open tournament set to take place this weekend.
Participants of the tournament — the top 8 players of the previous Pro Ladder season — will compete for a share of the $25,000 prize pool and GWENT Masters Crown Points.… Read the rest
ESL Gaming
Intel Extreme Masters returns to South Korea as StarCraft II will have its own stand-alone esports tournament ahead of the Olympic Winter Games 2018. IEM PyeongChang will take place on February 5-7, 2018 , and will feature 18 top players from around the world competing for a US$150,000 prize pool.… Read the rest
Lol eSports
The return of NA LCS weekends are almost here. On January 20, 2018 at 2:00 PM PT, 10 teams begin their journey toward Spring Finals with eyes on the NA LCS Split Championship title.
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The Video Games and Music Convention (VGM CON) is pleased to announce its lineup of special guests and musical performers for its 2018 event. Composers Jason Graves (Dead Space, Tomb Raider, Far Cry Primal) and Rich “Disasterpeace” Vreeland (Fez, It Follows, Hyper Light Drifter) will be joined by bands Super Guitar Bros.,… Read the rest
The Overwatch League roared to life last week at the Blizzard Arena Los Angeles, with four days of intense competition between all 12 teams of the world’s first major global city-based professional esports league.
Buoyed by a newly announced two-year deal with Twitch, the Overwatch League’s exclusive worldwide[1] third-party digital broadcast partner, opening day drew an impressive average audience per minute of 408,000, and 280,000 for the week.… Read the rest